The remaining humans are living in or around, Long Island, NY. I became completely engrossed, and the rest of my world faded away. The plot is engaging, and not a page was wasted in the development, and movement of this story. Wells painted a world that I could see, and his attention to detail had me riveted. The world-building in this novel is fantastic, unique, and believable. Wells took me on a fast-paced, breathtaking ride and left me wanting more. This virus wiped out most of the humanity and left the few remaining unable to produce living offspring. It has been eleven years since the uprising of the Partials a group of engineered organic beings who released a virus known as RM.

In this YA, post-apocalyptic dystopia the year is 2076. Partial is the first novel, in a new series by Dan Wells, acclaimed author of I Am Not a Serial Killer. But as she makes a desperate decision to save the last of her race, she will discover that the survival of humans and Partials alike rests in her attempts to uncover the connections between them-connections that humanity has forgotten, or perhaps never even knew were there Kira, a sixteen-year-old medic in training, is on the front lines of this battle, seeing RM ravage the community while mandatory pregnancy laws threaten to launch what’s left of humanity into civil war, and she’s not content to stand by and watch. The threat of the Partials is still imminent, but worse, no baby has been born immune to RM in more than a decade. Reduced to tens of thousands by RM, a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island while the Partials have mysteriously retreated. The human race is all but extinct after a war with Partials-engineered organic beings identical to humans-has decimated the population.

Partials by Dan Wells